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Book The Kennedy Assassination Tapes

Download or read book The Kennedy Assassination Tapes written by Max Holland and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work of documentary history–the brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath. The transition from John F. Kennedy to Johnson was arguably the most wrenching and, ultimately, one of the most bitter in the nation’s history. As Johnson himself said later, “I took the oath, I became president. But for millions of Americans I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne….The whole thing was almost unbearable.” In this book, Max Holland, a leading authority on the assassination and longtime Washington journalist, presents the momentous telephone calls President Johnson made and received as he sought to stabilize the country and keep the government functioning in the wake of November 22, 1963. The transcripts begin on the day of the assassination, and reveal the often chaotic activity behind the scenes as a nation in shock struggled to come to terms with the momentous events. The transcripts illuminate Johnson’s relationship with Robert F. Kennedy, which flared instantly into animosity; the genuine warmth of his dealings with Jacqueline Kennedy; his contact with the FBI and CIA directors; and the advice he sought from friends and mentors as he wrestled with the painful transition. We eavesdrop on all the conversations–including those with leading journalists–that persuaded Johnson to abandon his initial plan to let Texas authorities investigate the assassination. Instead, we observe how he abruptly established a federal commission headed by a very reluctant chief justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren. We also learn how Johnson cajoled and drafted other prominent men–among them Senator Richard Russell (who detested Warren), Allen Dulles, John McCloy, and Gerald Ford–into serving. We see a sudden president under unimaginable pressure, contending with media frenzy and speculation on a worldwide scale. We witness the flow of inaccurate information–some of it from J. Edgar Hoover–amid rumors and theories about foreign involvement. And we glimpse Johnson addressing the mounting criticism of the Warren Commission after it released its still-controversial report in September 1964. The conversations rendered here are nearly verbatim, and have never been explained so thoroughly. No passages have been deleted except when they veered from the subject. Brought together with Holland’s commentaries, they make riveting, hugely revelatory reading.

Book The Assassination Tapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : George J. A. O'Toole
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780891100003
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Assassination Tapes written by George J. A. O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Assassination Tapes

Download or read book The Assassination Tapes written by George J. A. O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover: "The Assassination Tapes is an electronic probe into the conspiracy behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Dallas cover-up utilizing the most amazing electronic development of the decade: the Psychological Stress Evaluator."

Book The Spanish War

    Book Details:
  • Author : G. J. A. O'Toole
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780393303049
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Spanish War written by G. J. A. O'Toole and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "O'Toole is . . . astonishingly good. . . . [He] is a master of the knack of weaving significant detail into his recapitulation of the war." --Alden Whitman, Chicago Sun-Times

Book Kennedy Tapes Concise Edition

Download or read book Kennedy Tapes Concise Edition written by Ernest R May and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1962: the United States and the Soviet Union stood eyeball to eyeball, each brandishing enough nuclear weapons to obliterate civilization in the Northern Hemisphere. It was one of the most dangerous moments in world history. Day by day, for two weeks, the inner circle of President Kennedy's National Security Council debated what to do, twice coming to the brink of attacking Soviet military units in Cuba -- units equipped for nuclear retaliation. And through it all, unbeknownst to any of the participants except the President himself, tape was rolling, capturing for posterity the deliberations that might have ended the world as we know it. Now available in this new concise edition, The Kennedy Tapes retains its gripping sense of history in the making. Book jacket.

Book Assassination Tapes

Download or read book Assassination Tapes written by George J. A. O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Case Closed

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  • Author : Gerald Posner
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 1480412309
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Case Closed written by Gerald Posner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “By far the most lucid and compelling account . . . of what probably did happen in Dallas—and what almost certainly did not.” —The New York Times Book Review The Kennedy assassination has reverberated for five decades, with tales of secret plots, multiple killers, and government cabals often overshadowing the event itself. As Gerald Posner writes, “Fifty years after the assassination, the biggest casualty has been the truth.” In this first-ever digital edition of his classic work, updated with a special comment for the fiftieth anniversary, Posner lays to rest all of the convoluted conspiracy theories—concerning the mafia, a second shooter, and the CIA—that have obscured over the decades what really happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Drawing from official sources and dozens of interviews, and filled with powerful historical detail, Case Closed is a vivid and straightforward account that stands as one of the most authoritative books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Book Hit List

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  • Author : Richard Belzer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 162636284X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Hit List written by Richard Belzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they’re going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these “coincidental” deaths, even regarding them as “myths” as “urban legends.” Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these ‘coincidences’. After all, events don’t “consult the odds” prior to happening; they simply happen. Then someone comes along later and figures out what the odds of it happening were. Some of the deaths seemed purely coincidental; heart attacks, hunting accidents. Others clearly seemed noteworthy; witnesses who did seem to know something and did seem to die mysteriously. Hit List is a fair examination of the evidence of each case, leading to (necessarily) different conclusions. The findings were absolutely staggering; as some cases were clearly linked to a “clean-up operation” after the murder of President Kennedy, while others were the result of ‘other forces’. The impeccable research and writing of Richard Belzer and David Wayne show that if the government is trying to hide anything, they’re the duo who will uncover it.

Book Taking Charge

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  • Author : Michael R. Beschloss
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1998-09-18
  • ISBN : 0684847922
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Taking Charge written by Michael R. Beschloss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-09-18 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Book The Death of a President

Download or read book The Death of a President written by William Manchester and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination--now restored to print in a new paperback edition. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death. Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective -- to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK's assassination -- is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.

Book The Reporter Who Knew Too Much

Download or read book The Reporter Who Knew Too Much written by Mark Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Or was her death from an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, as reported? Shaw believes Kilgallen's death has always been suspect, and unfolds a list of suspects ranging from Frank Sinatra to a Mafia don, while speculating on the possibilities of reopening the case.

Book NASA  Nazis   JFK

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenn Thomas
  • Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780932813398
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book NASA Nazis JFK written by Kenn Thomas and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970 a photocopied manuscript began circulating among conspiracy researchers entitled 'Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal' by William Torbitt (a pseudonym). The Torbitt Document was a damning expose of J Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Werner von Braun, among many others, for their role in the assassination of President John F Kennedy. This first published edition of the Torbitt Document emphasizes what the manuscript says about the link between Operation Paperclip Nazi scientists working for NASA, the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC), the assassination of JFK, and the secret Nevada air base known as Area 51. The Torbitt Document illuminates the darker side of NASA, the Military Industrial Complex, and the connections to Mercury, Nevada, and the Area 51 complex which headquarters the 'secret space programme'.

Book A Deeper  Darker Truth

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  • Author : Donald T. Phillips
  • Publisher : Donald T Phillips
  • Release : 2009-11-10
  • ISBN : 0615334016
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book A Deeper Darker Truth written by Donald T. Phillips and published by Donald T Phillips. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legacy of Secrecy

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  • Author : Lamar Waldron
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2010-05
  • ISBN : 145876060X
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book Legacy of Secrecy written by Lamar Waldron and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy of Secrecy tells the full story of JFKs murder and the tragic results of the cover-ups that followed, as revealed by two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, backed by thousands of files at the National Archives. The result of twenty years of research, it finally tells the full story long withheld from Congress and the American people.

Book The Clinton Tapes

Download or read book The Clinton Tapes written by Taylor Branch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former President Bill Clinton speaks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president. Providing illuminating commentaries on major issues, these conversations depict Clinton as a principled man with a restless intellect. b&w photographs.

Book Crossfire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Marrs
  • Publisher : Constellation
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 0465031803
  • Pages : 650 pages

Download or read book Crossfire written by Jim Marrs and published by Constellation. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963? Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy simply the work of a warped, solitary young man, or was something more nefarious afoot? Pulling together a wealth of evidence, including rare photos, documents, and interviews, veteran Texas journalist Jim Marrs reveals the truth about that fateful day. Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest findings about the assassination, Crossfire is the most comprehensive, convincing explanation of how, why, and by whom our thirty-fifth president was killed"--